scholarly journals Quem são e o que pensam os condutores de embarcações turísticas para observação de botos-cinza?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josivânia Emanuelly Azevedo Dos Santos ◽  
Vitor de Oliveira Lunardi ◽  
Diana Carvalho de Freitas ◽  
Maria Mayara dos Santos Silva ◽  
Diana Gonçalves Lunardi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sotalia Guianensis ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Guiana Dolphin ◽  
Dolphin Watching

Condutores turísticos podem exercer um papel relevante para o desenvolvimento sustentável do ecoturismo, sendo responsáveis pela condução dos turistas durante a visitação, promoção da sensibilização ambiental e cultural e contribuição no monitoramento de impactos socioambientais no local de visitação. Este estudo teve como objetivo descrever quem são e o que pensam os condutores de embarcações turísticas para observação de botos-cinza (Sotalia guianensis). Para tanto, foi registrada a interação entre condutores turísticos e turistas durante 22 passeios de observação de botos-cinza realizados entre 2014 e 2018 na Reserva de Fauna Costeira de Tibau do Sul (REFAUTS), Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. Adicionalmente, 22 questionários foram aplicados aos condutores de embarcações turísticas na REFAUTS, em maio de 2017 e julho de 2018. Durante os 22 passeios monitorados, os turistas não receberam qualquer informação sobre a REFAUTS ou receberam informação insuficiente sobre a biologia e ecologia de botos-cinza. De acordo com as respostas obtidas nos questionários, condutores turísticos da REFAUTS são predominantemente jovens, com nível de escolaridade fundamental e têm esta atividade como principal fonte de renda. Estes condutores declararam trabalhar na REFAUTS há pelo menos sete anos e ter conhecimento insuficiente sobre a existência desta Reserva. Uma parte significativa destes profissionais também declarou desconhecer a Lei Municipal nº 349/2007, que regulamenta o transporte marítimo na REFAUTS. Contudo, estes condutores declararam reconhecer a importância dos seguintes aspectos ambientais para a REFAUTS: boto-cinza, ambiente marinho protegido, normas de conduta, programa de fiscalização e cobrança da taxa turística para a REFAUTS. Os resultados deste estudo poderão subsidiar programas de educação ambiental voltados para os condutores turísticos, tornando-os importantes aliados na conservação de botos-cinza e agentes multiplicadores no processo de sensibilização ambiental de turistas na REFAUTS. Who are and what think the guiana dolphin-watching operators? Tour operators can play a relevant role in the sustainable development of ecotourism, being responsible for driving tourists during the visitation, promoting environmental and cultural awareness and contributing to the monitoring of social-environmental impacts in the place of visitation. This study aimed to describe who are and what think the Guiana dolphin-watching operators. We recorded the interaction between dolphin-watching operators and tourists during 22 tours conducted between 2014 and 2018 in the Coastal Wildlife Reserve of Tibau do Sul (REFAUTS), Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. In addition, 22 questionnaires were applied to dolphin-watching operators at the REFAUTS in May 2017 and July 2018. During the 22 tours monitored, tourists did not receive any information about the REFAUTS or received insufficient information about the biology and ecology of Guiana dophin (Sotalia guianensis). According to the answers obtained in the questionnaires, dolphin-watching operators are predominantly young, with elementary scholarly and have this activity as the main source of income. These dolphin-watching operators reported that they have worked in the REFAUTS for at least seven years and that they have insufficient knowledge about the existence of this Reserve. A significant number of these professionals also reported that they do not know the Municipal Law no 349/2007, which regulates maritime transport at the REFAUTS. However, these dolphin-watching operators reported that they recognize the importance of the following environmental aspects for the REFAUTS: Guiana dolphin, protected marine area, codes of conduct, inspection program and tourist tax for the REFAUTS. The results of this study may subsidize environmental education programs for dolphin-watching operators, making them important partners in the conservation of Guiana dolphin and multipliers in the process of environmental awareness of tourists in the REFAUTS. KEYWORDS: Dolphin; Environmental Perception; Environmental Planning; Pipa Beach; Dolphin-Watching.

scholarly journals RE-DEFINING THE SYSTEM BOUNDARIES OF HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2521-2530
Author(s):  
Tjark Gall ◽  
Flore Vallet ◽  
Sylvie Douzou ◽  
Bernard Yannou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
System Boundaries ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Human Centred Design

AbstractMost services and products are designed in response to the needs, desires or expectations of humans. A variety of methodologies grouped by the term Human-Centred Design (HCD) have been deployed to formalise and improve this process, ranging from user-centred to participatory practices. However, the approaches’ consideration is primarily limited to individuals in their respective space and time.To examine these system boundaries in detail and address potentials for adaptation, this paper reviews dominant HCD methodologies, categorises them and highlights their respective characteristics. Further, concepts and methodologies from related fields are studied for potential contributions to HCD. This results in a proposed re-definition of the system boundaries of HCD by integrating spatio-temporal impacts on humans through an extended social, environmental and economic scope.The different studied approaches and varying impact assessments are exemplarily applied to the case study of urban mobility, in particular human-centred, scenario-based design approaches. However, the described methods and concepts are kept generic to ensure the applicability across various domains of design practice.

scholarly journals Towards a theory of critical energy literacy: the Youth Strike for Climate, renewable energy and beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Gregory Lowan-Trudeau ◽  
Teresa Anne Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Critical Energy ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Energy Literacy ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
K 12

Abstract The Youth Strike for Climate raised important global attention to interconnected climate, energy and environmental issues — it also compelled us to consider what we will do to address these pressing challenges. Developed through consideration of such dynamics, we propose critical energy literacy as an emerging theory that denotes understanding of the social, environmental, political and economic challenges, benefits and impacts of various energy sources, developments and technologies. Critical energy literacy is grounded in critical and decolonising approaches to STEM education; considerations for collaborative multi-, inter- and Trans disciplinary pedagogy; critical place-based inquiry and pedagogy; critical gender perspectives and critical media literacy and engagement. Enhancing societal critical energy literacy will assist with more equitable energy, transit, construction and environmental planning by and for communities, businesses and governments. In this theory-building commentary, we share insights related to and principles for our emerging theory of critical energy literacy which coalesced through personal experience with and previous studies into related initiatives and areas of inquiry, and recent reviews of literature as well as K-12, post-secondary and not-for-profit curricula in Canada with consideration for international contexts. A discussion of renewable energy development and education focused on the Canadian province of Alberta is presented as an illuminating exemplar.

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Walters
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Remote Region ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Alternative Community ◽  
Buddhist Ritual

For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge.

Languages in Space and Time

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Patriarca ◽  
Els Heinsalu ◽  
Jean Leó Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time
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